Sports Predictions

It's that time of year again. Football fans across the nation are rejoicing the arrival of NFL training camps and the first few preseason clashes. Every team is a Super Bowl contender, every GM having the power to change players'…

Surveys are an important tool for researchers, but they have their limitations. They provide a snapshot of respondents’ thinking at a single point in time. Such snapshots don’t tell a complete story, and as recent failures in political polling attest,…

A day after the US celebrates Independence Day, millions of sports fans will be looking to celebrate again as the US National Team takes on Japan in the championship game of the Women's World Cup. Four years ago, Japan edged the US in…

For the past few months, researchers at Unanimous AI have been using Swarm Intelligences to predict the outcomes of sporting and pop culture events like the Oscars, the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals and the Stanley Cup. But, how accurate…

Whenever a psychic claims they can predict the future, skeptics quickly point out that if this were true, the soothsayer wouldn't read palms at twenty bucks an hour, but would make their fortune placing bets on sporting events or in the stock market.…

Last week when the Blackhawks beat the Ducks to reach the Stanley Cup finals, it sent a chill down my spine. No... not because I'm a Blackhawks fan, but because I've been following the predictions made by "human swarms" and it's getting downright…

The National Hockey League playoffs are notorious for the large number of teams that qualify and the long slog of the tournament. The victor must win 16 games over four best-of-seven series. While favorites are easily identified, a team’s strong…

After months of speculation between Heisman trophy winning quarterbacks Marcus Mariota of Oregon and Jameis Winston of Florida State, there seems to be a consensus that Tampa Bay will pick Winston with the 1st overall selection. Some analysts, like ESPN's Mel…

Last week we asked a SWARM INTELLIGENCE to predict the match-ups in the Sweet Sixteen round of the NCAA basketball tournament.* Of course, every individual has their own unique strategy for filling out their brackets, from favorite mascots to detailed statistical analysis, but…

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having fun and being smart. - Hunter S. Thompson A few weeks back, we used the UNU platform…